New research on sexuality and the internet is an “eye-opener”
By KAH and AF for APCNews
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 27 April 2011
“It was an eye-opener,” says privacy advocate Gus Hosein when he talks about the findings from APC’s exploratory research on sexuality and the internet in Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa, and USA. And it’s given him some good ammunition with which to field those annoying radio callers who question the need for privacy online.
But as a serious researcher himself based at the London School of Economics and deputy director of Privacy International responsible for research and networking, what impresses Hosein most is the soft part of the research — the stories and the contextualisation.
EroTICs has given advocates stories and contexts to think about that debates about privacy and censorship lacked he says. “It was the first time I saw debates of this nature, told in these deeply emotive ways. [And it] reeks of research, clinical research.”
“I wish real research did this more often,” he says. “I have not seen real research of this nature.”
EroTICs is an exploratory research on sexuality and internet carried out by APC in 2009-10. Summaries of the EroTICs findings in each of the five countries under study are now online.
The full report will be out later this year. To be the first to read it, sign up to APCNews on the APC homepage (top right of the page)
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Thanks for the post. Gender
Thanks for the post. Gender is a hotly debated topic for several years already. Polemic about sexuality is continuously piling up. Many are stirred when a controversy such as this arise. Actually, even babies have gender issues.Toronto parents David Stocker and Kathy Witterick became father and mother for the 3rd time when baby Storm was delivered on New Year’s day. The couple, however, has decided to keep the child’s gender a mystery. They’re leaving it up to Storm to expose that knowledge for him or herself. Here is the proof: Parents decide to keep baby’s gender secret, newstype.com. Well, everyone is involved when “sexuality” is stressed. No one is spared.
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